The student needs to contact a supervisor and to agree upon the topic of the thesis in due time (at least six months before the planned date of graduation – “seduta di laurea” in Italian; see more details below, admission to the defense).
It is recommended to write the thesis in the students’ host country and to contact early a second supervisor at home in order to make sure that requirements of both Universities involved are met.
Host university will send to home university the final grade of evaluation thesis. This grade will be necessary to make the final grade of the thesis in the home university.
Please make sure you adhere to locally defined timelines for the preparation of your thesis – these may differ across Double Degree universities and deviate from Pavia timing.
The same applies for objectives for, contents and format of the thesis.
Here below follow some general indications on how to write a thesis, which meets Pavia’s standards.
In some of the partner Universities, (i.e EM-Strasbourg Business School), or Universidad de Seville) the thesis takes the form of a case study (frequently based on internships) may be co-authored with colleagues and is less developed in theory terms, or in a brief work counts 6 credits (e.g. Seville). In these cases the thesis must be customized to Pavia standards, i.e. you will need to extend and deepen the work, and these adaptations must be agreed upon with your supervisor in Pavia (for more details please do not hesitate to contact prof.ssa Birgit Hagen, prof.ssa Claudia Tarantola or the administrative responsible of Double Degree Programme Mr. Federico Franceschini).
The grade is proposed by your first and second supervisor but is subject to a final decision by the defense committee at the end of the thesis discussion (seduta di laurea). The rules for the evaluation of the thesis are the following:
The points obtained in the discussion are added to your average grade once re-scaled on a scale of 110. To clarify the process here is an example: if your average grade is 27 in all your exams on a scale of 30 the average grade before the discussion is 99 – 27 divided 30 and multiplied by 110 – (please consider that laude adds 0.30 points to your average grade). If, after the discussion, you get 6 points, your final grade will be 105 (99+ 6) over 110. In order to be graduated with honours (laude) you need to obtain 113 points.
To be eligible for dissertation discussion, students must have passed all examinations required by the curriculum and the dissertation must be finalized and evaluated by the first supervisor. Students must provide a second supervisor with the first supervisor’s evaluation at least 15 days prior to the start of the graduate session in which the student intends to present, or the student will not be admitted to the session.
After completing the Questionario Laureandi and accessing to your Reserved Area, it is possible to fill out the Graduation Request within the deadline decided by your Department/Faculty.
Submission of the Graduation Request:
Without these payments it will not be possible to validate your Graduation Request.
Submission of the thesis:
ATTENTION: within your Department/Faculty’s deadlines the final verson of your thesis must be uploaded only in the pdf/A format. Your Supervisor must validate it within 3 days.
Additional Departmental information
Those who are still in possession of the paper-based exams’ transcript, released during the immatriculation process, must submit or send it to the Students’ Affairs Office within the thesis submission’s deadline.
What to do if the Graduation’s Exams is delayed by the student
In case of a delay/postponment of the Graduation’s Exam, it is necessary to delete the Graduation’s Admission Request, within your Department/Faculty’s deadlines, accessing in your Reserved Area and using the specific function. Students are requested to send another Request for the Exam’s Session in which they want to Graduate. In this case, further payments will not be requested, except the 16 euro duty stamp’s virtual payment for the new Request.
Please check the timeline and requirements here: Master thesis’ guidelines